1. OPERATION URGENT FURY II

2. Thursday 4/21/16 Object (Le Dejeuner en Fourrure)
The Two Fridas – Frida Kahlo
The Jungle – Wifredo Lam
Illustration from The Results of the First Five Year Plan
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow – Piet Mondrian
Fallingwater – Frank Lloyd Wright

3. SURREALISM ’s
Inspired by the psychological studies of Freud and Jung
Sought represent the unseen worlds of dreams, subconscious thoughts, and unspoken communication
It is meant to puzzle, challenge, and fascinate
It is not meant to be clearly understood, not didactic

4. (#138) OBJECT (LE DEJEUNNER EN FOURRURE)

5. MERET OPPENHEIM
MERET OPPENHEIM, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.
Another example of surrealism -> said to have been done in response to Picasso’s claim that anything looks good in fur
Combination of unlike objects -> fur covered teacup, saucer, and spoon
Erotic overtones
*SURREALISM

6. SURREALISM IN MEXICO

7. (#140) THE TWO FRIDAS Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939, oil on canvas
Juxtaposition of two self-potraits
Left – Kahlo dressed as Spanish lady in white lace
Right – Kahlo dressed as a Mexican peasant -> stiffness and provincial quality of folk art is her inspiration
Her two hearts are twined together by veins that are cut by scissors at one end and lead to a portrait of her husband Diego Rivera, at the other end -> painted at the time of their divorce
Barren landscape against a wildly active sky
Blood on her lap suggests many abortions and miscarriages, also her surgeries relating to her polio
Critics describe her work as surrealism, even though she rejected this label
(#140) THE TWO FRIDAS

9. (#142) THE JUNGLE
Wifredo Lam, The Jungle, 1943, gouache on paper mounted on canvas
Cuban-born artist whose career took him to Europe and the United States
Interested in Cuba’s mix of Hispanic and African cultures
Influenced by -> African sculpture, Cubist works, Surrealist paintings
Addresses the history of slavery in colonial Cuba
Crescent shape faces -> African masks
Rounded backs, thin arms/legs, pronounced feet/hands
Meant suggest sugar cane

10. CONSTRUCTIVISM – SOVIET ART

11. (#137) ILLUSTRATION FROM THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN

12. (#136) COMPOSITION WITH RED, BLUE AND YELLOW
The De Stijl (literally, "the style") art movement was founded in It encompassed a new type of style in modern art and architecture. This movement used the artistic talent of the artists by designing homes, buildings, and furniture. They were eager to develop a new aesthetic consciousness and an objective art based on clear principles. Their work and research extended to the fine arts, city and town planning, the applied arts and philosophy. Art was seen as a collective approach, with a language that went beyond cultural, geographical and political divisions. The depersonalization of the artwork was carried through into the execution which was anonymous and impersonal. The artist's personality took a back seat to a conscious and calculated working process
The key ideas underpinning the movement could not be separated from Piet Mondrian's aesthetic theory of Neo- Plasticism. This theory was aimed at scaling down the formal components of art - only primary colors and straight lines. The principles of De Stijl art and design exerted tremendous influence on the Bauhaus Style in Germany in the 1920s, and after Mondrian's immigration to New York in 1940, the U.S.A

13. PIET MONDRIAN
PIET MONDRIAN, Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Oil on canvas
De Stijl artists reduced their artistic vocabulary to simple geometric elements
Only primary colors used: red, yellow, blue and the neutrals white and black
Severe geometry of form -> only right angles/grid like forms
No shading of colors
*DE STIJL

14. (#139-1) FALLINGWATER

15. FALLINGWATER FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), 1939
One of the most famous and iconic buildings in 20th century architecture
Accent on the horizontal nature of the prairie -> long, ground hugging lines of the building
Cantilever construction -> porches extend over waterfall -> architecture in harmony with site
Living room contains glass curtain wall around three of four sides -> embraces the woods around it
Irregularity and complexity of ground plan and design

16. (#139-2) FALLINGWATER - INTERIOR

17. (#139-3) FALLINGWATER – SITE PLAN